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Consider this a warning: We can speak about the horrors of this case without leaning into misogyny and attacking this woman for how she looks.
Comments attacking anyone for how they look will be subject to removal.
How about the murderers for what they were wearing?
I don't think there could possibly be a greater bashing of her appearance than this warning post.
So, she stole diapers, didn't have a weapon, I can't imagine she was driving while holding up a child, and posed some sort of imminent threat?
Where is the immediate threat to life and limb?
Where is the immediate threat to life and limb?
They're claiming that the other woman was driving the vehicle towards officers, but shooting at a moving vehicle is never justified anyway.
It's all bullshit to protect the police here.
the cops will lie to create one, they always do. Hopefully it was being recorded-- its the only way to have a chnace of justice when cops are present.
How the fuck is shooting into a moving vehicle ever justified?
Release the body cam and the Walmart video.
What really gets me is that tracking down vehicles is like the purpose of Flock and other ALPRs and dead people usually can’t hit the brakes.
So even having had a chance to see the license plate personally and living in a world where helicopters and magnetic AirTag like devices exist if you don’t have access to Flock or some other ability to simply follow the fucking car for whatever reason they still think they were justified in killing a child in order to… not stop the car before it would have hit an officer if it was going to because, like I said earlier, dead people don’t generally have the ability to stop cars…
And let just be totally honest, if you have time to register speed and direction of a car, unholster, unsafety, cock, aim, and fire, then you or whoever else had time to get out of the fucking way of the car!!!
Stop me if you heard this one
Senatobia police said the officer believed the driver was moving toward him.
"So there I was! Getting ran over by a mother that stole dipers. When my training kicked in and I shot the first black male there. God saved me!"
Lookout, Jimbo! She's comin' right for us!
That is fucked up.
Even if we accept the premise she was driving straight towards them, shooting her does not stop the vehicle.
I don’t accept that premise, by the way.
For a non violent property crime (of stealing diapers, probably one of the most ethical crimes you could do as a poor person) they could have mortised the license plate, they had video of her, they could have stepped aside and could have shot the vehicle’s tires.
I see no universe where this makes any sense.
if there were any evidence that supported the cops' story, they would have released it.
the fact that none of the footage from WALMART or any dash or body cam footage has been released tells you everything you need to know.
Not to disagree with your central point, but shooting out tires is extremely impractical in real life. It still won't stop the vehicle, and you'll almost certainly miss.
Yeah, please don't go shooting a gun in public. This isn't the movies. Just write down the license plate number and then go to their house. Simple.
Actually in this case, it was for stealing diapers. So just look the other way, go to lunch and call it a day.
For shoplifting diapers? I can't even...
Yeah, but diapers kinda sounds like diamonds and minor kinda sounds like miner and diamonds are mined by miners who sometimes unionise but not like police unions which are good but workers unions which are like socialism which is like communism which is bad and anti-American and why do you hate America what do you want the terrorists to win?
I see Tucker Carlson finally joined the fediverse!
Jesus, if they are trying to paint themselves in the best possible light with this, that place is a shithole. There isn't any part of this that even warrants pulling a gun. A fucking pack of diapers? No weapons? And a known baby in the vehicle?
Why did any of that need to be dealt with immediately and with deadly force?
Ya hear that folks? Shoplifting diapers for your child is legally punishiable by death but if you brutally rape someone else’s child, you can be president of an entire nation!
Scorched earth people. NEVER forgive, and NEVER let them forget they not only allowed this, but approved it.
My takeaway from this is that any time I see a cop, there's a chance they shot a baby to death and suffered no consequences? Are they even human at this point?
American cops will never understand that they can just take a license plate and go knock on the door later, no, "I said stop and they are not stopping! The punishment for disobedience is death!"
"Serve and protect"
"The public?"
"No, the property owners. Diapers recovered."
You might be the bad guys if you kill children and say "It was justified" when pressed on it.
The women exited the store with the child as officers arrived, entered their vehicle and began to leave the parking lot.
Officers drew their weapons
WHY? Why did the fucking idiots pull their guns? How is such escalation of force justified for this situation?
Jesus fuck, all over a pack of diapers from, I assume, a company worth a hundred billion dollars.
Like when they slowly strangled George Floyd to death over a $20 bill. It's never about the alleged crime. They'll keep murdering people and getting away with it until they don't.
Neither woman has been charged with a crime, and officials have not released any evidence of shoplifting. Wiley and both women are Black; the officer identified as the subject of the investigation, Hunter Foster, is white.
Not only white but two misconduct charges and an internal complaint days prior to the shooting for making racially offensive remarks to a coworker. Yet this is the guy the AG let’s skate for murdering a baby because the vehicle was “driving in their direction” and “nearly struck him”. Last month their police chief was fired for texting racial slurs, on a completely unrelated note.
He was...crawling right at them? Might have overpowered them? And of course it happened at a walmart.
What would have happened if the lady got away with a pack of stolen diapers? Worth firing guns over I guess?
I dont even recognize this country anymore. Its barbaric.
If police can shoot at you for stealing a pack of diapers worth $20 or less, why won't they come to your house after a burglarly unless you lost more than $600 worth of stuff?
They murdered a baby over a nonviolent misdemeanor that would have had at most had a $1000 fine. We need to wall off a lot of the red states from civilized society, kind of like escape from NY/LA.
Maybe when they are forced to deal with their own shit hole states they'll make them livable.
Just when I thought America couldn't get any worse...
Fuck that cop and fuck that attorney general. In no goddamn way is it Justified to kill someone over fucking pack of diapers that Walmart doesn't even fucking report. That Walmart should be protested against and the attorney general should get zero rest.
Okay, I'm not a cop, so perhaps I'm missing something here, but why did they approach the car with weapons drawn?
Should there not be some sort of restraint in the employment of firearms? I mean, that's how I was trained.